[texhax] Large Project

[Paul Isambert]

Divide your project into several smaller files. Suppose you have 
main.tex with all your macro definitions (your preamble if you're in 
LaTeX), then you can dispatch parts of your document in partA.tex, 
partB.tex, partC.tex... And then in main.tex you \input them:

\input partA.tex
\input partB.tex
\input partC.tex

The interesting thing is that when you're working on, say, part C, you 
don't need to input the previous parts, so:

%\input partA.tex
%\input partB.tex
\input partC.tex

Page numbering and cross-references will go wrong but if you're only 
interested in not doing syntax errors at this stage of the process, you 
don't mind.

Paul


Patrick M. Rutkowski a écrit :
> My project has gotten large enough that when I run "!tex" in my bash
> shell it takes quite a while before I'm looking at the resulting PDF.
> This gets rather annoying, since I'm new enough to TeX that I really
> do have to be constantly looking at the output of every line as I type
> it, line by line (for fear of accruing too many syntax mistakes).
>
> How the heck do people go about writing 20+ page projects in TeX?
>
> Another issue is that I'm using epsf.tex from CTAN to include
> postscript figures in my document, and that really slows things down
> even more.
>
> Any advice?
> -Patrick
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